Clinton's State Dept. Calendar Missing Scores of Entries

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2009 file photo,
then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, rings the New York Stock
opening bell, accompanied by then-NYSE CEO Duncan L. Niederauer, in New
York. Television cameras rolled when Clinton appeared on the central
balcony of the New York Stock Exchange to ring the opening bell, just
minutes after she attended a private breakfast in September 2009 with
influential Wall Street and business leaders. But the identities of her
breakfast guests would be left off of her official State Department
calendar, omissions that are among scores of names and events missing
from Clinton’s historical record of her daily activities as secretary of
state, an Associated Press review found.
Richard Drew, FileAP Photo

Not exactly transparent when the AP has to SUE YOU to get what should be readily available to the public....the Secretary of State's calendar. No, Hillary has her own agenda, separate from We The People. She has used her office for her own personal gain...millions upon millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation. Much if not most of that from foreign governments that support Sharia....and a large number of meetings she held with donors were scrubbed from her calendar. Combine this new revelation with how she secretly communicated via her own email server rather than using the U.S. governments server and then when caught she erases 30,000 emails....and we have a woman caught red handed hiding what she was up to- selling out America to the highest bidder. Now, half of all American voters want to give this traitor MORE POWER and elect her to the highest office in the land. A quid pro quo on steroids. Heaven help us. Surely if we do, we have gotten what we deserve. -W.E.

Television cameras rolled when Hillary Clinton appeared on the
central balcony of the New York Stock Exchange to ring the opening bell —
just minutes after she attended a private breakfast in September 2009
with influential Wall Street and business leaders.

But the
identities of her breakfast guests would be left off of her official
State Department calendar — omissions that are among scores of names and
events missing from Clinton's historical record of her daily activities
as secretary of state, an Associated Press review found.

Now the
presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Clinton met that morning
with a dozen chief executives, most of whose firms had lobbied the
government and donated to her family's global charity, the Clinton
Foundation. The event was closed to the press and merited only a brief
mention in her official calendar, which omitted the names of all her
guests — among them Blackstone Group Chairman Steven Schwarzman, PepsiCo
CEO Indra Nooyi and then-New York Bank of Mellon CEO Robert Kelly.

The
AP review of Clinton's calendar — her after-the-fact, official
chronology of the events of her four-year term — identified at least 75
meetings with longtime political donors and loyalists, Clinton
Foundation contributors and corporate and other outside interests that
were either not recorded or listed with identifying details scrubbed.
The AP found the omissions by comparing the 1,500-page document with
separate planning schedules supplied to Clinton by aides in advance of
each day's events. The names of at least 114 outsiders who met with
Clinton were missing from her calendar, the records show.

The
missing entries raise new questions about how Clinton and her inner
circle handled government records documenting her State Department
tenure — in this case, why the official chronology of her four-year term
does not closely mirror other more detailed records of her daily
meetings. At a time when Clinton's private email system is under
scrutiny by an FBI criminal investigation, the calendar omissions
reinforce concerns that she sought to eliminate the "risk of the
personal being accessible" — as she wrote in an email exchange that she
failed to turn over to the government but was subsequently uncovered
elsewhere.

No known federal laws were violated and some omissions
could be blamed on Clinton's highly fluid schedule, which sometimes
forced late cancellations. But only seven meetings in Clinton's planning
schedules were replaced by substitute events on her official calendar.
More than 60 other events listed in Clinton's planners were omitted
entirely in her calendar, tersely noted or described only as "private
meetings" — all without naming those who met with her.

Clinton
campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said Thursday night that the multiple
discrepancies between her State Department calendar and her planning
schedules "simply reflect a more detailed version in one version as
compared to another, all maintained by her staff."

Merrill said
that Clinton "has always made an effort to be transparent since entering
public life, whether it be the release of over 30 years of tax returns,
years of financial disclosure forms, or asking that 55,000 pages of
work emails from her time of secretary of state be turned over to the
public."

The missing or heavily edited entries in her calendar
included private dinners with political donors, policy sessions with
groups of corporate leaders and "drop-bys" with old Clinton campaign
hands. Among those whose names were omitted from her calendar were
longtime adviser Sidney Blumenthal, consultant and former Clinton White
House chief of staff Thomas "Mack" McLarty, former energy lobbyist
Joseph Wilson and entertainment magnate and Clinton campaign bundler
Haim Saban.

The AP first sought Clinton's calendar and schedules
from the State Department in August 2013, but the agency would not
acknowledge even that it had the material. After nearly two years of
delay, the AP sued the State Department in March 2015. The department
agreed in a court filing last August to turn over Clinton's calendar,
and provided the documents in November. After noticing discrepancies
between Clinton's calendar and some schedules, the AP pressed in court
for all of Clinton's planning material. The U.S. has released about
one-third of those planners to the AP, so far.

The State
Department censored both sets of documents for national security and
other reasons, but those changes were made after the documents were
turned over to the State Department at the end of Clinton's tenure.

The
documents obtained by the AP do not show who specifically logged
entries in Clinton's calendar or who edited the material. Clinton's
emails and other records show that she and two close aides, deputy chief
of staff Huma Abedin and scheduling assistant Lona J. Valmoro, held
weekly meetings and emailed almost every day about Clinton's plans. According to the recent inspector general's audit and a court
declaration made last December by the State Department's acting
executive secretary, Clinton's aides had access to her calendar through a
government Microsoft Outlook account. Both Abedin and Valmoro were
political appointees at the State Department and are now aides in her
presidential campaign.

Unlike Clinton's planning schedules, which
were sent to Clinton each morning, her calendar was edited after each
event, the AP's review showed. Some calendar entries were accompanied by
Valmoro emails — indicating she may have added those entries. Every
meeting entry also included both the planned time of the event and the
actual time — showing that Clinton's calendar was being used to document
each meeting after it ended.

Former senior State Department
logistics officials and government records experts interviewed by the AP
said that secretaries of state have wide latitude in keeping their
schedules — despite federal laws and agency rules overseeing the
archiving of calendars and warning against altering or deleting records.
Omissions in Clinton's calendar could undermine the document's
historical accuracy, particularly its depictions of Clinton's access to
political, corporate and other influences, experts said.

"It's
clear that any outside influence needs to be clearly identified in some
way to at least guarantee transparency. That didn't happen," said
Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government
Oversight, a nonpartisan government reform group. "These discrepancies
are striking because of her possible interest at the time in running for
the presidency."

When Clinton met in September 2009 with her 12
corporate breakfast guests at the New York Stock Exchange, her planning
schedule that morning listed the hourlong event as "CEO breakfast
discussion and New York Stock Exchange opening bell ceremony," adding
that no press would be allowed.

Besides Schwarzman, Nooyi and
Kelly, Clinton's other guests were Fabrizio Freda, CEO of the Estee
Lauder Companies Inc.; Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks Corp.; Lewis
Frankfort, chairman of Coach Inc.; Ellen Kullman, then-CEO of DuPont;
David M. Cote, CEO of Honeywell International Inc.; James Tisch,
president of Loews Corp.; John D. Wren, CEO of Omnicom Group;
then-McGraw Hill Companies chairman Harold McGraw III; and James
Taiclet, chairman of the American Tower Corp. Also attending was
then-NYSE CEO Duncan Niederauer, who later accompanied Clinton when she
rang the stock exchange bell.

As she opened the day's trading
session, Clinton cited Wall Street's resurgence after the 2008
recession. "Coming back as secretary of state after all that we've done
in the last year to try to pull ourselves out of this economic downturn
is very exciting," she said.

Details about Clinton's private
conversation with her corporate guests were not included in her records.
Four of the attendees — Schwarzman, Nooyi, Cote and Kullman — headed
companies that later donated to Clinton's pet diplomatic project of that
period, the U.S. pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo. All the firms
represented except Coach lobbied the government in 2009; Blackstone,
Honeywell, Omnicom and DuPont lobbied the State Department that year.
Schwarzman and Frankfort have personally donated to the Clinton
Foundation, and the other firms — except for American Tower and New York
Bank of Mellon — also contributed to the Clinton charity.

P.J.
Crowley, a State Department spokesman for Clinton at the time, told the
AP that Clinton's vision of "21st century statecraft" included
exchanging views with corporate leaders and promoting public-private
partnerships. "That was certainly reflected in her day-to-day schedule,
her travel and her global outreach," Crowley said.

Clinton's
calendar listed meetings with 124 business leaders and political donors
and loyalists, but not with 114 others who were identified by the AP's
review. In some cases, repeat Clinton visitors were listed for some
meetings, but not for others.

Four meetings with S. Daniel
Abraham, a multimillionaire who founded the Center for Mideast Peace,
were noted in Clinton's calendar. But in four other sessions — including
two listed only as "private meeting" — Abraham's name was omitted.
Abraham, a prolific fundraiser for Clinton's 2008 campaign who has
donated $3 million to a super PAC backing Clinton in 2016, told the AP
last year that he and Clinton typically discussed Mideast policy.

"The
fact that some information was not captured isn't necessarily a sign of
bad faith," said Steven Aftergood, a government records expert at the
Federation of American Scientists. He added, "It's obviously more
important to have a complete record than a scattershot one."